Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1980
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bagwell v. Town of Lawrenceville · State v. Studt
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The legislative intent is made clearly manifest by the title of the act above set out. We cannot ignore the language of the title, which in this case furnishes the light by which we may read the purpose of the legislature.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.